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digitimes.com - 8/1/2008
Nvidia to quit chipset business
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Ricky Morris, DIGITIMES, Taipei [Friday 1 August 2008] Nvidia has decided to throw in the towel and quit the chipset business, sources close to the situation at one of Taiwan's top motherboard makers have revealed. As the story is told, Nvidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners to gauge support for it continuing to develop chipsets in the future. The ...

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NVIDIA rumored to exit chipset business
SlashGear — ... NVIDIA are preparing to pull out of the motherboard business, according to a report by DigiTimes.  Citing “sources close to the situation”, it’s claimed that NVIDIA called a meeting with manufacturing partners earlier this week to examine what degree of support their ongoing chipset development would receive; the partners’ response was apparently poor enough to prompt the company to cut its losses. ...

NVIDIA dropping 790i mobo, quitting chipset business?
Engadget — ... We don't take much stock in Digitimes rumors, but the negative chatter about NVIDIA just keeps getting louder -- in addition to that ...

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